It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.
When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.
You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.
I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.
I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.
I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.
Sometimes it's blood memory. . . not the blood your mother and father gave you. . . but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.
No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.
At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.